"I think DOGE has performed a really useful function and I don’t think it’s going to disappear."
"Look, no president - and administrations - don’t get to dictate what’s going to happen here. Congress is not the Army."
"I've learned never to dismiss out of hand anything the president says, but it would take a constitutional amendment."
"I don’t think you’re likely to see a Republican House and Republican Senate try to limit a Republican president."
"The speaker is very insistent that we go all the way."
"I want to do all 12; I’m crystal clear about that."
"We’re not trying to put 40 pills in, trying to hide anything."
"We’re not trying to fool you. I don’t want to give you an excuse to vote no."
"We’re going to write a CR that’s non-objectionable to every quarter as we can make it."
"We’re not putting any DOGE cuts in the CR."
"That's a no-go, that's a red line that we're not changing our position on and they know that."
"I don’t know. I’d have to go back and check."